Guild Wars 2

I’d have put Master of Monuments as a low risk one like the veteran creature slayer. If a group of humans are trying to upgrade a tower or keep they will try to defend the camps, sentries and dolyaks that feed it.
Most decent players that see you are just trying to get your daily master of monuments won’t try to stop you. And if they do you can respawn and get a different ruin. The only exception to this would be if you are unlucky enough that 3 ruins are your colour and being held at the time. Then they will want to stop you as it can give everyone in your server Bordland Bloodlust and possibly take it away from theirs if they don’t.

Then even if you do get killed by an enemy, it is free to respawn in WvW and there is a repair anvil at spawn so getting killed by an enemy player isn’t a huge risk.

Jski.6180:

I would like to see a Grandmaster mark reward track that you unlock when you get 500 in a craft. The last reward is a mark but the rewards up to that point help you make that mark.

That sounds a good idea. Still need to be a master in the crafting field but an alternate way to get the mark.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

In the past, I’ve purchased some console game that included and older game from the same publisher. I didn’t get a discount because I had purchased the older game when it was new. I’ve also purchased albums that I didn’t get a discount on, just because I had previously purchased some of the tracks as singles.

I would like to think that those interested enough to want to purchase an expansion would also want to support the development team that made such content available. But…

But this is an expansion for the same game. Wasn’t the new console game available on it’s own?

Really depends. A core game owner could have bought it when it first came out. Another player could have started F2P then bought HoT during a sale. Not too sure about the figures but I’d not be surprised if the core game owner paid >3 times what the HoT owner in this example paid.
Then there are also people who bought the core game then bought HoT.
Thats why I’m thinking if Xpac2 is released a bundle just have 2 sets of prices, a lower one for people who have bought either or both before and a higher one for people who haven’t already bought.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Sinmir.6504:

I’d have just had 2 groups. People who have bought and people who haven’t. So group one would be people who bought, either Core then HoT, HoT and unlocked the Core game with it or Core game but not HoT. Group 2 would be new players and F2P players.
So only two different prices, one for those who have bought the game in any way and one for people who haven’t.

Unsurprisingly, there are still players that just have the core game (I have at least 2 guildies in such a position), which is why I included the middle group. As I said above, the need for such may eventually go away, at which point yes, we’d end up with just the two groups. Which, I did consider in my initial tiering.

Assuming they went with just 2 groups, one buys everything, the other just buys the most recent xpac, how then do we deal with someone that owns core and buys xpac2, but would also like hot? do they now need to be treated as a new player and buy the new player pack? (which is sort of what caused all the uproar with how they bundled core and hot with its initial release). do they offer each individual xpac for its own standalone price? does it come as part of the vet bundle? (would this in itself not cause an uproar from people complaining about rebuying what they already have?) Its not uncommon for MMOs to sell each xpac as its own thing, most of which stating right on their boxes that you need to own ‘x game’ for it to work, but anet didn’t want to go that route. They want to remove that pay wall altogether.

And again we’re right back to not being able to please everyone and the logic behind Anets packaging choices.

Sorry, I should have explained better what I was meaning by the 2 groups. Both would get Xpac2 and HoT. Just rather than having a tier for every different type People who have bought the game and people who haven’t.
So tier 1 would include HoT owners and paid core game owners.
They buy Xpac2 available at a lower price and get HoT with it if they don’t already have it.

Tier 2 would be F2P and new players
Their bundle would be Xpac 2, HoT and the core game.

Although before we get our hopes up, now the price of HoT is the same for a new player to buy as it is for a core game owner to upgrade.

Vesuvius.9874:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

For example:

Brand New Players:
Core + HoT + Xpac2 -> 50 Base, 75 Deluxe, 100 Ultimate

Core Only Vets
Hot + Xpac2 -> 40 Base, 65 Deluxe, 90 Ultimate

Core + Hot Vets
Xpac 2 -> 30 Base, 55 Deluxe, 80 Ultimate

Or some such. I just pulled numbers out of the air here, but that’s the idea people are going for.

The problem with that approach is, given enough expansions, the price point will eventually hit 0. Do people really think that is viable for a business if it wants to keep making money? That’s essentially asking ANET to apply their own in-game law of diminishing returns to themselves…

I’d have just had 2 groups. People who have bought and people who haven’t. So group one would be people who bought, either Core then HoT, HoT and unlocked the Core game with it or Core game but not HoT. Group 2 would be new players and F2P players.
So only two different prices, one for those who have bought the game in any way and one for people who haven’t.

Canon race is pretty much what the player chooses.
Although in the Scarlet’s War cutscene it’s a female Norn stomping Scarlet at about 59 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2JGRkopyA

Only actually looked up the video because as i was replaying that bit of Living World I thought that was my character in the cutscene, looked it up to see if it’s your own character you get in the cutscene or if everyone sees a female Norn wearing red stag armour stomping Scarlet.
Second time watching it I noticed there are plenty of differences but you can probably see why for the quick time seeig her at first I thought it was the character I was using in the cutscene.

Biggest problem I’ve had with the beasts isn’t getting them stolen. Its when we are doing okay controlling the points, the beasts appear and half the team runs off to slay them leaving us to get decapped. A nice enough boost but I think some people put way too much importance in them.

Drecien.4508:

So today I logged into Lake Doric map and saw a commander, so I thought, “hey I need some leather so ill join the farm”…. I was not impressed to say the least. There were at least 40 Engineers there with hundreds of turrets just sitting. This has got to end.

You decided you needed leather and that you would join the farm… Then got annoyed that another 40 engineers were doing it.

My other main, my very first character. My Norn warrior, Sinmir Stormcloak.
I’d say this is his theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5P5Tz3VH94

I’ll be honest, I quite liked being able to overcharge the same turret several times.
Was thinking about the way it changes your skills when you deploy a turret though. Right now, for example the flame turret. If it is set to 7, Throw Napalm will be F2. Deploy it and 7 becomes detonate.
I thought it might be better if 7 became throw napalm after he flame turret is deployed and F2 becomes detonate.

Since the recent turret engineer pick up group beat Cairn I had been thinking of starting a guild for, well turret Engineers in raids. Called it “Build Em Up Break Em [DOWN].”
Just wondering if this is still worth doing/viable since the recent patch.

With Razor Jake Clawson as my main, I think this would be his theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCtcymU5IA

lucius.7804:

Sinmir.6504:

I understand the frustration. Fighting Tequatl, disconnect, back in empty map. Still not too sure about reserving a slot. Means others could miss out on an event and the event could fail because players can’t get in because slots are reserved for people who might come back. A player disconnects, could just be a random cut off and they just need to log back in. Or it could be something bigger, a few weeks back a digger doing some road maintenance nerby managed to cut through an underground phone line. Any events I might have been taking part in then would have probably been long over by the time I was online next. Somebody would be held out because a slot i reserved for me when I couldn’t do anything until the phone line was repaired.
Or it could be that they chose to leave, in the map for another reason and finished. No point in reserving a slot for them when even if they log back in they aren’t part of the big event going on and won’t care about which instance they are in.

I’m sorry but Dragon stand? The map that locks you out of loot at the end and lasts an hour and a half? 1 minute waiting will hardly lock an alternate player out if the other player leaves.

As for “a player quitting locking people out” argument it would literally have to be 1 line of code on a map swap or a log out that says “remove them from the list”. However if they never trigger those and still leave, Then they have a 1 minute window

So only in Dragon Stand? I see the benefits to having reserved places for 1 min, even mentioned how it could have helped me in Sparkfly Fen as well. But then it could be a quick disconnect, they could be off for a while. In my case when the digger went through an underground phone line it was the next day.

You might like the improvised weapon skins.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Improvised_weapon_skins

I understand the frustration. Fighting Tequatl, disconnect, back in empty map. Still not too sure about reserving a slot. Means others could miss out on an event and the event could fail because players can’t get in because slots are reserved for people who might come back. A player disconnects, could just be a random cut off and they just need to log back in. Or it could be something bigger, a few weeks back a digger doing some road maintenance nerby managed to cut through an underground phone line. Any events I might have been taking part in then would have probably been long over by the time I was online next. Somebody would be held out because a slot i reserved for me when I couldn’t do anything until the phone line was repaired.
Or it could be that they chose to leave, in the map for another reason and finished. No point in reserving a slot for them when even if they log back in they aren’t part of the big event going on and won’t care about which instance they are in.

Doam.8305:

Lets take a look at the last legendary

1. The Rifle is well a Rifle and only the Engineer and the Warrior can use the rifle which would mean locking all other classes out of that buff because they couldn’t use a rifle.

2. Its a buff so wouldn’t that push the Warrior and Engineer to use the rifle as a weapon since their other weapons wouldn’t have that buff unless they slot additional legionaries into those slots.

There is a legendary of every weapon. People can choose the legendary based on the character, not the profession based on a legendary.

Have you bought the recipe for Friendship/have the mastery level? Should just be when you go to craft Friendship the Visionary Inscription is one of the pieces you need. From a Vision Crystal and Legendary Inscription.

OniGiri.9461:

The two skins that Eternity is made of (the upgraded Twilight and the upgraded Sunrise) are super cool!!! The originals just look pale compared to the Eternity versions.

BUT!!!!! Since it keeps switching all the time it really dempens my enjoyment
My Charr looks sooo kitten when at night (with the night version of Eternity) but
with the rise of the sun he looks so…. off

I really wish we could use the two Eternity versions seperatly

Talking about a Charr, wondering if you were trying to swear and got filtered. Or just saying he looks like a kitten.

Quick question… 3 years ago did two handed weapons only have one upgrade slot? just saying he dual wields so that he can get two sigils but as it has been as long as I remember two handed weapons get two upgrade slots, and two infusion slots if hey are ascended or legendary.
I dual wield with my main warrior as well, axe/mace… Frostfang/Eureka.

As for legendary greatswords. I am actually working on making Twilight justnow. Not sure if I’ll ever make Eternity, or even if I’ll ever make Sunrise. I’ll probably give Twilight to my PS warrior but making it because I love The Battle of Champion’s Dusk. Since the title Dusk’s Champion was made, well the precursor for Twilight being Dusk, what better sword to go with that title? Maybe i another Stronghold arena was added that awarded the title “Dawn’s Champion” I’d start working on making Sunrise as well. Whether I’d put them together for Eternity, I don’t know.

I think they had it in the courtyard so you couldn’t get a lead then all stay in base until time runs out. Would it really achieve much in Conquest or Stronghold. Player chooses to AFK in base, player gets kicked out of base, player AFKs just outside of base.

Chase.8415:

Sinmir.6504:

There is the option. The Dismiss button makes the box go away, click it after youhave licked accept. You get into the match when/if everyone accepts, just can’t see how many still need to accept.

If you’re willing to give up your vote in map selection, then yeah this works.

Ok, I didn’t know it gives up the vote. I have Conquest unchecked, only one Stronghold map so no voting either way for me.

DaShi.1368:

charchar.2149:

WHY DOES MATCH READY HAVE TO TAKE OVER YOUR SCREEN ??

I agree. Once you select accept, they should make it into a smaller, less intrusive box off to the side.

If you press dismiss after accepting the box does disappear. gives you that bit of time to finish what you are doing before loading to into the match.

Got to ask, I see it getting complained about all the time. Is there really that much that they gain from it? Looting anything their minions attack while they are AFK. I could be missing something but thought a short time playing seriously would be a lot more rewarding than AFKing for a long time.

Exedore.6320:

vesica tempestas.1563:

i was replying to the poster above who thinks Stronghold is PVE. I think Conquest is good, and stronghold offers a change of pace and strategy.

If you want to win, you play stronghold as a PvE race and ignore other players. You don’t have to kill players ever in order to win.

Really depends what the enemy does. If they are escorting mercs it is beneicial to kill them. Though what sometimes gets me is when the defenders go for the doorbreker instead of the player killing the guards. Stop the player from kiling the guards and the doorbreakers will go like moths to a flame.

Stronghold is the only PvP map I like. Two separate ranks for Stronghold and Conquest would be fine, stop Conquest players from complaining that we can share a rank with them by playing Stronghold. So you could be legend in Stronghold but the lowest of the bronze in Conquest or legend in Conquest but think you get the gates down in Stronghold by attacking them with your weapon.
Seems kind of a big cost to Stronghold fans for a small-null benefit to Conquest fans. We lose the game mode we want to play in ranked, big cost to us, they get a bit of pride that we can’t share a rating with them.

I’d have liked a hara kiri button for downed state. Then would only need to be 15 seconds dead at disconnect and reconnect as they could have done the instant death choice.
Feels like downed state was put in the game to be a benefit, give you a chance to get up but just now it can be used as an advantage to the enemy by keeping them incapacitated.

Ivantreil.3092:

Battle of Champions Dusk its not an esport map btw, no one takes seriously that map.

It’s my favourite map in PvP. Much better than Conquest.

There is the option. The Dismiss button makes the box go away, click it after youhave licked accept. You get into the match when/if everyone accepts, just can’t see how many still need to accept.

I wouldn’t have minded an option to be hornless as a Charr.
Well, I based my engineer on Jake from Swat Kats and, well, Jake doesn’t have horns. I chose the same type of horns Tybalt has and made them as small as I could. I suppose the Bloodstone Crown does pretty much cover them up.
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/233927/gw012.jpg
Was my friend who took the screenshot, he’s the other Charr in the pic, he’s working on basing him on Chance from Swat Kats.

It can be more expensive to do it that way. At the trading post the answer could be Rabid justnow, cheapest Gossamer insignia. Say you want Berserker, you make Rabid ascended gear, you need the zerker insignia at the mystic forge. If you make Zerker to begin with it would save the Rabid insignia and 5 globs of ecto. Although if you already had the recipe to make a rabid ascended piece could maybe make it, save the gold and laurels needed to buy another recipe.

Nury.3062:

I could have a longbow on my back and a longbow back item….and a longbow shooting longbows….that would be sooooo good !

You could be onto something there. The post reminded me of AVGN’s review of Little Red Hood. In it you can get a slingshot but instead of shooting rocks you throw slingshots. This longbow could be a longbow that shoots longbows. If collections were still needed you would need to kick trees to complete the legendary longbow.
At the mistic forge when you finally have the 4 ingredients you need you throw them in. Instead of getting the bow straight away you are transported to Zommoros where he says, “Thank you for your coming.” and gives you the bow.

Thread didn’t really need bumped up but people need to queue to get a match. There is the sound effect so you can be afk, hear it and get back to the PC to accept. If you really can’t accept that then there’s always the custom arenas.

Or if it’s the ready option with the 90 second countdown. If for any reason you need to be AFK you have the choice to not click yes for ready. You’ll know the match will start only after the timer has ran out even if 9/10 have clicked yes.

Exedore.6320:

Reasons to vote “No”

• Profession stacking won’t be eliminated even by voting “yes” because low population and trying to minimize queue times will overcome the multiple profession penalty.
• Voting “yes” would lead to longer queue times for popular professions since the matchmaker would initially prefer 2 per match.
• Voting “yes” would lead to worse matches because larger skill differentials are preferred over smaller differentials with stacked professions.
• Inability to change profession to balance out a teams roles and eliminate weaknesses. If you get two thieves, you’re stuck with two thieves. Almost every profession has one good build with small variation and one role, so switching build isn’t a viable solution.
• Because you can’t change profession or build to make a more balanced team comp, winning or losing becomes more based on luck with matchmaker.
• Profession stacking actually gets worse because players avoid queuing as professions with clear-cut weaknesses (thief loses to DH, Necro gets farmed without support, support ele needs good DPS, etc.).

Two more reasons. The first one doesn’t really apply to me because I don’t do Conquest, only Stronghold and there is only one SH map. But anyway, players might have characters that they play better with on different maps. If you play conquest you don’t know which map you’ll get. Just an example and not even sure if it’s correct given I don’t play Conquest but Foefire is quite flat, you might want to use a melee character more than somewhere like the temple where there are high up places you can go and snipe with a ranged character.
The other thing was for when you are queuing outside of HotM. You might want to do map completion, events, WvW with one character but play with a different character in PvP.

Updated when I relogged, looks like I missed out on chests though.

Just after midnight here, still yesterday’s dailies. Haven’t had log in reward yet. Was in Sparkfly Fen at the time, beat Teq, because I did him last night at midnight with the same character just got three of the gifts that appear in chests above the map. Didn’t get orange chest or the big chest that appears behind the broken piece of his tail.

I don’t have anything against switching during the 90 seconds.
Was wondering with the yes option it says attempting to switch will not allow re etrance. Does that mean it will be 4v5 if a person does attempt? Maybe if it only allows them to select the character they were in the match with in character selection if the match is still on?

Lahmia.2193:

I’ve been wanting to join the White Mantle, properly, ever since gw1. However given the current storyline, we could join Lazarus’ new White Mantle as they are a force for good. And considering the old White Mantle has been defeated.

Lazarus hasn’t been confirmed good or evil yet. It may have been propoganda by Caudicus as the commander stated but there is now the possibility that the Lazarus we saw is an imposter

Stronghold. I’d love to see it back in Season 6. 100 times better than Conquest.

If loot is masterwork(green) it has a minor rune. Rare(yellow) has a major rune. Maybe if shops had an option Sell Minor/Major runes.

If they want to play a different race so badly they could use a new slot, if they don’t have a slot available buy a new one or delete the character whose race they want to change. If that character has any ascended gear it can be put in the bank and given to the new one.

Interrupting a duel is trolling the player from your own server as well. They are trying to duel, they don’t want you joining in any more than the person you attack. They both want a 1v1 fight.
Although if there are no obvious signs(people watching passively, locaton that duels usually take place) then it can be hard to know it is a duel. If two players are fighting and it isn’t a duel the guy on your side might be even more annoyed if you do nothing than a dueler would be if you interrupt. If it is a duel and you didn’t know the one on your side can just step back, say, “duel” and if you respect him stop.

Most verbal abuse I’ve seen in PvP comes from people on the same team. Blaming one or more members for the team losing the match.

Going through the personal story, we know Your mentor, Tybalt, Forgal or Sieran die at Claw Island
Just did Head of the Snake with my main character. My warrior, joined the Vigil with him those years ago. During the final instance Demmi talks about Tybalt as if he is dead. Well just before she dies she mentions that she can see her Master Tybalt.
Shouldn’t he only have died if I had joined the Order of Whispers with that character?

Seeing as she has followed her master Tybalt into the mists… How abut Demmi?

Pyaari.8217:

I don’t understand this “Every living story episode that is being released will have a certain time that you need to log in into the game in order to obtain it if you missed this opportunity than youll have to buy the episode”.

Does someone mind explaining? So does this apply for, let’s say, someone who has HoT and has logged in before episode 4 came out but won’t log on for a few days after its release?

You have a lot more than a few days. Just before Head of the Snake was released Gaile gave the heads up for anyone who hadn’t logged in to o so and bank episode 3 so one episode can be banked any time between it’s release and the next one being released.

Might be a good time to remind you that if you didn’t “bank” Episode 3, do so now, before Episode 4 launches.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Episode-4-release-time/first
I on’t think you even need to own HoT to bank. Say if you are core or F2P for years, playing regularly, logging in during the times, you could have all 4 episodes banked by now but would need to buy HoT to unlock them.

I like it, kind of reminds me of Grymm. Working on making it.

4 days after purchasing HoT they should have full access to the trading post and able to send items via mail.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Thing is, the game gives you ample information to use in the middle of the match.

Like for instance:

No action has shown up on the kill/death list, no points are being captured, and your team sees nobody while an alternate map objective has opened up. Where could everyone possibly be :P? The biggest place youll notice this on is in temple at the notorious 8:30 mark. Ive seen several players just run around thinking that the point isnt being contested, meanwhile a full scale team fight happening at tranquility that this player’s team will be losing because they chose to try to run around and cap points that will be immediately lost once his team gets downed.

You have no excuse to sit there and idly defend when you’ve been given enough information to use to guide your rotations.

You are making it sound like Tranquility is the only important thing on the Temple. I don’t like Conquest so my opinion probably doesn’t weigh much but honestly if all 5 enemies are at Tranquility I’d call that a blessing. 4v5 at Tranquility. Hey, if you can get all the points your colour for as long as the fight lasts it’s worth something. That 1 player can recap one point quickly if the enemy gets Tranquility. Get stillness on the way to the next one. Or more players focusing on capping points while the 5 enemies go for tranq… Mid will probably be white by the time they are out and close and far will be easily retaken. Then if the enemy is 5 at Tranq and outnumbered the players on your team still get it, well they’ve lost all their points and don’t get a quick retake.
Not trying to say you should ignore objectives, just saying I think you are putting a lot more importance than needed in them. I love Stronghold, I’ll admit, I do get annoyed when I go alone to get far mist essence, my team are all near close(sometimes not even an enemy near) but they just run past it like it isn’t there. Enemy ends up getting it because none of my team took the easy opportunity.
Skyhammer, I guess like Tranq, it is a nice thing to get but not something I think a full team should run for.
Worst objectives are probably the forest creatures, they appear, that thought of 25 points makes the desk their computer is on rise an inch for some players. They ping on the map while you are in the process of trying to capture a point. Several run for it, letting the enemy decap their points. Then a lucky enemy player manages to get 1 hit in and get the 25 points. Points decapped and as the team did most of the damage the enemy got fed 25 points.

From the green circle round the camp looks like the supervisor is already dead.